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Scottish Engineer Devises Versatile Hand

...eloped by a Scottish engineer, is termed a massive advance on previous artificial limbs . It can't click its fingers or play the piano but there's not much else it won't do. It can, for instance, turn a key in a lock, hold a wine glass or punch a pin number into a cash machine. David Gow who works...

Bush Again Vetoes Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill

...imic the properties of embryonic stem cells, in an advance they hope can be replicated in humans. "By expanding support for nondestructive research methods, this executive order will make it more likely that these exciting advances continue to unfold," the White House said after Bush signed the executive ord...

Buckyball Has the Ability to Fight Against Allergy: Research

...ol allergy, no cure has been found. These findings advance the up-and-coming field of medicine known as nanoimmunology. The researchers, from Virginia Commonwealth University and Luna Innovations Inc., a private, Roanoke, Va., research company, are the first to demonstrate that buckyballs are able to block ...

The Bottleneck in Neuroblastoma

...ter for Applied Genomics at Children's Hospital to advance that knowledge. Our goal is to match the most appropriate treatment with precise molecular targets in biological pathways, so we can intervene to stop neuroblastoma in its tracks, said Maris....

LifeCycle Pharma to Initiate Phase II Clinical Trial of LCP-Tacro for Organ Transplantation

...e progress LifeCycle Pharma has made, and eager to advance LCP-Tacro to Phase II clinical trials," added Dr. Ornskov. "This is the start of an exciting clinical development program. LCP-Tacro will bring the convenience of once-daily administration of tacrolimus and may optimize outcomes after kidney trans...

Human Vaccine for Herpes Virus on the Anvil

...sistent infection. The work is currently online in advance of publication in the July issue of Journal of Virology. Our approach generates an immune response that is different from the normal response to the virus, and we hope to have found an Achilles heel in the defences that the virus uses to evade the ...

More Fat Leads to Less Coronary Artery Calcification

...ad author of the study. This is a major conceptual advance in the effort to identify modifiable factors that may influence inflammatory processes implicated in the development of common sight-threatening retinal diseases. These study results, SanGiovanni emphasized, are important because they provide a rea...

U.S. Preventive Medicine(R) Encourages the International Community to Embrace Prevention

...f healthcare company. Its goal is to organize and advance a culture of prevention throughout America and the world -- to change the focus from caring for the sick, to one that encourages people to take early steps to avert illness and enjoy more good years. This message appears this week in a full-page...

Childhood Abuse Increases the Risk of Alcoholism

...A report of the study appears in the June 26, 2007 advance online publication of Molecular Psychiatry. Previous studies have shown that childhood sexual abuse increases the risk for numerous mental health problems in adulthood. However not all abused children develop such problems, a likely indication that...

New Imaging Technique may Help Detect Multiple Sclerosis Early

...-time at the actual progress of demyelination will advance understanding of multiple sclerosis, and perhaps promote early detection of the disease. During the course of study, the researchers injected a compound called lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) into the myelin of a mouse. When the researchers used C...

Boffins a Step Closer to Solving Puzzle of Lou Gehrig's Disease

...ts lack the copper and zinc, that would be a major advance that could lead to treatment," she said. Copper-zinc superoxide dismutase, which was discovered in the 1960s, is an antioxidant enzyme that protects cells from free radicals, unstable atoms or molecules that can cause cell damage. The link with ALS...

Alteon Initiates Phase 2 Trial of ALT-2074 in Diabetes and Haptoglobin 2-2

...y redefining diabetes, Alteon believes that it can advance an efficient clinical development program in which a more appropriately targeted therapy is given to a more susceptible patient population....

Bayer and Onyx Submit Supplemental New Drug Application for Nexavar to Treat Liver Cancer

...e reference standard of care in HCC, and will help advance our development program, which includes clinical trials studying Nexavar alone and in combination with other therapies across many different cancer types, including melanoma, non-small cell lung and breast cancer."...

A Blood Test Developed in Australia to Repair DNA Damage

...d to actively preventing them. "This world-first advance in preventative medicine can now give people a glimpse into their future health and equip them with the knowledge they need to stay healthy," he said. "In most cases, human genome damage can be reversed or reduced by simple, inexpensive measures su...

American Cancer Society Launches Major New Study

...on of American Cancer Society research and further advance the understanding of the lifestyle, environmental, and genetic factors that cause or prevent cancer. It is the latest in a series of important large-scale American Cancer Society studies stretching back to the 1950s that have contributed significantl...

Diabetes Drug Dramatically Boosts Potency of Platinum Chemotherapy

...even tumor shrinkage could represent a significant advance in chemotherapy," the researchers wrote....

Risk of Heart Attack, Death High Among Extremely Anxious Patients

...exercise, and come up with effective strategies to advance cardiac risk factors, such as smoking, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Equally important, it helps to set up a caring relationship that lightens the fears that could shorten a patients life. "I tell patients well-managed coronary disease ...

UC Regents Approve Fundraised Campaign for UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay

...nter is a key element of UCSFs long-term vision to advance its education, research and patient care missions....

Poisoned Workers of Hindustan Lever Demand Treatment

... The SCMC also recommended that HLL should pay an advance of 50 crores towards remediation and independent of this should also set up a health clinic and a non polluting employment center for the health and economic rehabilitation of the affected workers. Having suffered from HLLs lack of understanding of...

AIDS Vaccine Still a Long Way Off

...of the disease-modifying vaccines could be a major advance in the development of an AIDS vaccine. About 40 million people are HIV-positive and another 11 000 people contract the virus every day, most of them in the world's poorest nations. The ability of HIV to mutate rapidly remains one of the biggest obs...

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